Study Niddah folio 34A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
This incident occurred during a pilgrimage Festival, either Passover, Sukkot, or Shavuot, and the rabbis rendered the ritual impurity of an am ha’aretz during a pilgrimage Festival as purity. As it is written: “And all the men of Israel gathered to the city, like one man, united [ḥaverim]” (Judges
Mishnah: With regard to the blood of a menstruating non-Jew woman or a non-Jew zava, and the blood discharged by a female Jewish metzora during the days of purity of a woman who gives birth, Beit Shammai deem them ritually pure, and Beit Hillel say: The halakhic status of the blood of the non-Jew
With regard to the blood of a woman who gave birth and reached the conclusion of her days of impurity, i.e., 7 days after giving birth to a male or 14 days after giving birth to a female, but who did not yet immerse in a mikveh, Beit Shammai say: Although she has yet to immerse in a mikveh, the blo
And Beit Shammai concede to Beit Hillel in the case of a woman who gives birth as a zava, where the woman must count 7 clean days from the conclusion of her days of impurity, that any blood she sees during those 7 days imparts impurity whether it is moist or dry.
Talmud: The Mishnah teaches that according to Beit Shammai the blood of a non-Jew woman does not impart impurity. The Talmud objects: And do Beit Shammai not accept that which is taught with regard to the verse: “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, when any man has an issue [zav] out o